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Risk and Extortion LXIX: Facebook
The cognitive decline of western imperialism. As soon as Marc Zuckerberg announced that Meta would stop fact checking, I decided to terminate my Facebook account. I hardly used it to… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXVIII: The Death of Propaganda?
For decades, Communication Studies have been primarily occupied with the question of media influence, especially in relation of advertising, marketing, public relations and above all, political propaganda. As both in… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXVII: Pounding the Table
Defending the Indefensible through Semantic Violence The growing rift between public opinion and the state-sanctioned narrative of the genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem and the… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXVI: The End of Democracy
Democracy manages the masses, while oligarchy manages outcomes. This is blasphemy. How dare someone speak like this? Democracy is a sacred good; wrenched from the aristocrats by “the people”, either… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXV: Nationalism as Mythopoesis
“Nationalism is the conviction that a nation is superior not through principle, justice, or collective accomplishment, but because one happens to have been born on its soil—preferably to parents and… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXIV: Live Aid
Overcoming the Negative Dialectics of Hedonism. Yesterday, exactly 40 years ago, on the 13th of July 1985, the Live Aid Concerts took place in two locations: The Wembley Stadium in… Read more.
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Risk and Extortiion LXIII: On the Prohibition of Holocaust Comparisons
Policing Language and Cancel Culture In a “conversation with” ChatGPT, I was told that I “needed to be careful with invoking comparisions between the Shoah and other genocides without collapsing… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXII: David Draiman is Disturbed
On July 5th, 2025, David Draiman (from the band Disturbed) performed at the “Back to the Beginning” farewell concert for Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne at Villa Park in Birmingham,… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXI: Can Common Sense Save Us?
The Vanishing of the Epstein-Maxwell Axis In the “West”, the growing rift between leading politicians and mainstream media on the one hand and “most ordinary people” on the other hand… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LX: The Rehabilitation of Terrorism
Benjamin Netanyahu made his name in Israeli politics for continuously associating the Palestinian people with terrorism. He rose to prominence in the 1970s by repeating the message about the risks… Read more.
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